Whereas a handful of actors turned down horror roles they later regretted not accepting, others don’t have any regrets. Once more, that is considerably particular to the horror style; some actors and viewers alike don’t need something to do with it, and understandably so.
Director Jordan Peele requested Tiffany Haddish to audition for a job in 2017’s “Get Out.” Haddish and Peele had labored collectively in “Keanu” (which Peele additionally co-wrote and produced) and “The Final O.G.” (which Haddish starred in and Peele co-created and govt produced). Haddish swiftly and definitively declined. “I am cool on that,” she stated with amusing on “Late Evening with Seth Meyers” in 2018 (by way of Folks). “I am going to watch it, within the daytime. I am not gonna be in it.” Whereas Haddish might have had hesitations being in a movie so viscerally of the horror style, she appears to be open to supernatural-adjacent roles to a point, having starred in 2023’s “Haunted Mansion” as a psychic named Harriet.
In one other determination that did not garner any regret, Bette Midler handed on portraying Annie Wilkes in 1990’s “Distress,” directed by Rob Reiner. “I simply could not. It was too violent,” Midler advised Selection in 2023. “The character was so not humorous, so with none qualities of redemption. She lower off his foot. Come on. Who does that?” Kathy Bates finally performed Annie within the movie, and it stays one in every of her greatest performances.
Haddish, Midler, and others might have been sensible to know their boundaries and never cross them, avoiding the pitfalls of actors who have been modified perpetually by horror roles. However we’ll at all times marvel what a few of these motion pictures would have been like with these alternate solid members.